Stovepipe-hanger.



APPLICATION FILED JULY I 1907.

BY MM) %1 ATTORNEY.

WITNESSES:

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WILLIAM A. WILSON, OF ARLINGTON, NEBRASKA.

STOVEPIPE-HANGER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 10, 1907.

Application filed July 1, 1907. Serial No. 381.781.

.To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. WILSON, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Arlington, in the county of Washington and State of Nebraska, have invented a new and useful Stovepipe-Hanger, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in hangershaving a separable rod connecting a pipe-clasp with a wall or ceiling attaching part; and the objects'of my improvement are, first, to facilitate fastening the hanger to a wall or ceiling without the use of other tools; second, to provide a hanger universally jointed at both ends, so that it can be set at any angle either to the pipe or to the surface to which it is fastened; third, to provide an elastically gripping metallic clasp to adjustably and detachably engage the pipe; fourth, to contrive means whereby the hanger-rod can be adjusted to any length; and fifth to facilitate the use of stock mate rials in the construction, at the same time producing a light, ornamental and substantial hanger. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of such a hanger suspended vertically from a ceiling as in use Fig. 2 is an elevation illustrating v the construction and connection of the selfadjusting elastically gripping pipe clasp; Fig. 3 is a perspective View illustrating the use and connection of the top part of the rod with the ceiling or wall attachment; and, Fig. 4 illustrates the intermediate coupling of the two parts of the hanger-rod.

Similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

The rod connecting the pipe-clasp 8 and the wall or ceiling fastenin is made in two parts 3 and 7, detachably fastened together by the turnbuckle or coupling nut 5. The part 3 has one end 4 threaded to enter the coupling nut and a short portion of its opposite end bent at a right angle and terminated with a head 3. This rod is inserted through the screw-eye 2 as shown in Fig. 3; in which position it serves as a lever to turn the screweye and drive its threaded part 2 into the ceiling 11 through the finishing-plate or collar 12; it is then passed on through until the bent portion adjacent to the head 3 is seated in the screw-eye, as shown in Fig. 1, thereby forming a hinged connection which, with the turning of the screw-eye, gives this end of the rod universal angular adjustment from its point of attachment. Part 7 is made like part 3 and is interchangeable therewith, having the head 7 at its bent end and the single difference that its threaded portion 6 is longer so that a part may be broken or cut off for small adjustments of length,difi'erent lengths of rods being resorted to f0 greater adjustment.

The pipe-clasp 8 is made of a single strip of sheet metal, the middle portion bent fiatwise to encircle the pipe; the end portions then bent first outward and then inward to form the elliptical shaped loops 10 and 10 the ends 9 and 9 further bent until they are closed fiat against the inside of the pipe encircling portion 8.

These loops 10 and 10 are crossperforated to form attaching-ears so that the rod 7 can be inserted through across the loops, as shown in Fig. 2, after the clasp is placed around the ipe. The rod 7 is drawn on through and the loop-attaching-ears 10 and 10, forced onto the short angled part of the rod adjacent to the head 7 and the rod swung up to the position shown in Fig. 1; this compresses and flattens the loop-ears as shown in Fig. 1, and draws the clasp around the pipe with an elastic-grip, so that it retains its position until released by swinging the rod back and thus releasing the grip on the pipe to shift the position of the clasp or to remove it therefrom. The inwardly lapped ends 9 and 9 reinforces the bases of the loop-ears giving them requisite strength to allow the use of very thin sheet metal in the clasp which fits closely and neatly to the pipe. That part of the rod seated through the loop-ears turns therein to allow the hanger to swing to any angle in a plane agreeing with the line of pipe, and by shifting the clasp around the pipe any lateral angle thereto may be attained. After the arts 3 and 7 are attached the threaded coup ing, as shown in Fig. 4, is run clear onto the threaded end 4, theend 6 brought into position and the coupling turned down a part of its length onto the threaded end 6, coupling the two parts together as shown in Fig. 1.

This hanger having its attaching ends both universally hinged is adapted to hanging pipe at any angle and supporting it from surface planes at any angle thereto; it may be used in pairs set at different angles for very rigid support; and adding to this, its length adjustment, it is adapted to meet all the conditions of hanging stove-pipe and renders the pipe easily taken down for cleaning or removal.

I claim:

1. A pipe-hanger comprising, a pipe-clasp made of a single sheet-metal strip bent centrally to embrace the pipe and having outwardly looped bends to form abutting spring ends to said central bend and said looped bends cross-perforated to form attaching ears, atwo-part separably-coupled hangerrod having one end bent adapted to hinge in an attaching screw-eye and the opposite end headed and bent adapted to be disposed through said attaching ears to hinge the rod therein and draw said spring-ends together.

2. A pipe-hanger comprising, an open encircling pipe-clasp With ears at its ends, an

attaching screw-eye, a two-part separablycoupled hanger-rod one part adapted to slide through and bent to hinge in said screw-eye and the other part bent to adapt it to be separably connected through said ears to hinge therein and draw said ears together.

3. A pipe-clasp for pipe-hangers consisting of, a single piece of sheet metal having a central bend to embrace the pipe, adacent portions bent outward in elliptical shaped loops to form spring connecting cars at the endselthe clasp and the ends of the ,i'netal strip each bent and disposed against the inside ol the central bend at the base of its adjoining ear.

XVILLIAM A. WI LSON. Witnesses Tnos. FINNELL, C. J. BEEKMAN. 

